As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.

Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity.

Hiroshima does not look like a bombed city. It looks as if a monster steamroller had passed over it and squashed it out of existence.

Ho, or Nguyen Ai Quoc, thus became the first Vietnamese communist and a founding member of the French Communist party, born out of the split.

Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.